June, 21, 2016 SA wine industry could add 100 000 jobs by 2025

(IOL) - South Africa’s wine industry could add a further 100 000 jobs by 2025, mostly in the Western Cape, following the signing this month of the Economic Partnerships Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) countries. So said Michael ...

June, 21, 2016 Rosé Is More Than Just a Pink Summer Wine: 'It's a Lifestyle'

(ABCNews) - It’s more than a drink -- it’s a lifestyle. At least, that’s what so-called Rosé people say. Rosé, the pink wine now synonymous with summer, is enjoying its time in the sun. Rosé has experienced a meteoric rise over the past decade in part th...

June, 21, 2016 How Vivino Plans To Become The Amazon Of Wine

(Forbes) - One day about seven years ago, Danish entrepreneur Heini Zachariassen found himself standing in front of an enormous wine shelf at his local supermarket and feeling, as he recalls, “stupid.” He wanted to buy a bottle of wine, but he had no idea what was considere...

June, 21, 2016 Draw on Data for Efficient Wine Sales

(Wines&Vines) - These days, companies have the means and the power to use data to their full advantage. Data collection and analysis was a recurring theme at the recent Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS), which took place June 14 in Sonoma. Organized for the past 11 years by co-founde...

June, 21, 2016 Black founders of Healdsburg's Esterlina Vineyards accuse bank of discriminatory lending

(PD) - Members of a prominent African- American wine family are alleging their bank steered their Healdsburg winery into costly high-interest loans because they are black, triggering a downward spiral that forced them to file bankruptcy and relinquish their winery. Brothers Eric and Craig St...

June, 20, 2016 Paso Robles Winemakers Divided Over Water

(Wine-Searcher) - A protest about tree removal turns out to have really been about the ongoing issue of water rights. Paso Robles area residents are outraged by recent clearcutting of oak trees on the property of Justin Vineyards, with aerial photos of a denuded hill spurring 200 people to ...

June, 20, 2016 UK: Majestic Wine FY profit drops 75% on Naked buy

(MarketWatch) - Majestic Wine PLC (WINE.LN) Monday reported 75% drop in fiscal 2016 pretax profit, mainly due to a large non-cash charge relating to the acquisition of Naked Wines, and said trading conditions in the U.K. are expected to remain challenging. For the year ended March 28, the wine r...

June, 20, 2016 70 percent of Tennessee grocery stores ready to sell wine starting July 1st

(NewsChannel9) - The Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced on Monday that in less than a week, it has delivered retail food store licenses to over 50% of grocery stores in the state applying to sell wine by July 1st. With less than two weeks to go, the ABC has also issued condit...